The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.
The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.